The incident marks the second reported explosion in the city on Monday and the third in two weeks.

An explosion earlier in the day in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive in East Austin killed a 17-year-old and injured a woman described as in her 40s.

Hours after that incident, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said that explosion appeared similar and likely related to another explosion in Northeast Austin on March 2....

Manley said authorities know what kind of explosive devices were used, but they are not revealing details in order to preserve the integrity of the investigation....

In the package explosion on March 2, Austin police responded to a home in the 1100 block of Haverford Drive around 6:55 a.m.

First responders took 39-year-old Anthony Stephan House to a hospital, but he died from his injuries shortly after the blast.

Since then, authorities have not named anyone who may have been involved.

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

The good day will be when there is full control and this senseless violence ends. The perpetrators (those in charge and fomenting the terrorists behavior) need to be brought before justice and answer for their crimes.

Authorities in Texas identified the man who was killed after a "device" exploded on the front porch of his Austin home last week, as they continue to investigate where it came from.

The Austin Police Department said in a news release Anthony Stephan House, 39, was critically injured in the explosion shortly before 7 a.m. in the city's northeast Harris Ridge neighborhood before he was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead an hour later.

House's death was initially called a homicide, but police on Monday said it now is considered a suspicious death because they haven't ruled out the possibility that the victim may have constructed and accidentally detonated the device himself....“Right now, we're trying to determine how did the package get there and who was the intended target? We do feel that this was targeted at somebody. We're still trying to figure out whether that was the individual who died or not,” Chacon said. ...The blast on Sunday has left residents on the street concerned about packages left on their property. Chacon tried to reassure people on Monday, saying that if "your gut is telling you something is wrong" to contact authorities, but they do not believe someone is going around leaving packages that could possibly explode.

Austin have responded to two package explosions in one day, one reported to be deadly, on the heels of another deadly package explosion on March 2.

Austin police announced Monday morning the first two package explosion fatalities are linked, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities warn residents to contact police if they receive an unexpected package.

Police were investigating two package explosions Monday morning, one of which killed a teenager and severely injured a woman in her 40s, according to several Austin media outlets. ...

The first Monday explosion occurred about five miles from the Austin Convention Center, which is the site of South by Southwest activities on Monday.

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An explosion that injured two men in southwest Austin on Sunday night--the fourth explosion this month--was possibly set off by a tripwire.

It happened in the 4800 block of Dawn Song Drive near Mopac and 290 around 8:45 p.m. Sunday....Austin Mayor Steve Adler says both men hurt in the latest bombing are white, unlike the minority victims of the three previous attacks.

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The serial bomber behind a deadly exploding package spree in Austin has reportedly been killed following nearly three weeks of terror in the Texas capitol.

News of the suspect’s death, first reported by the Austin-Statesman, coincided with a police shooting that stopped traffic along a highway 11 miles north of Austin just before 3 a.m. local time Wednesday.

Dozens of FBI agents were seen swarming the site of the shooting in the Round Rock suburb.

It was not immediately clear how the shooting was related to the suspect's death. A FBI spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

The death follows the fifth confirmed bomb linked to the plot responsible for the death of two people. The explosive device, stashed inside a package, detonated inside a FedEx depot near San Antonio early Tuesday.

8:50 a.m. update: A law enforcement official told the American-Statesman that investigators accessing Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt's Google search history found that he had been looking up other addresses in Austin and the surrounding area.

Late Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were dispatched to two homes in the Cedar Park area to check the front porch and to notify residents that they may be in danger.

The official said each of the bombs had "striking consistencies" in how they are manufactured.

Conditt, a Pflugerville resident, apparently killed himself early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him, local and federal law enforcement sources told the American-Statesman and KVUE-TV.

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Earlier: A man whom authorities were attempting to arrest early Wednesday in a string of bombing attacks in Austin killed himself with an explosive device as authorities closed in, a high-ranking law enforcement official told the American-Statesman.The scene outside a Round Rock-area hotel where authorities say the suspect in a string of Austin bombings has died. Photo by Ricardo B. Brazziell/AMERICAN-STATESMAN

The official said authorities identified a suspect in the past 24 hours based largely on information gained after police said the suspect shipped an explosive device from a FedEx store in Sunset Valley, a suburb surrounded by Austin. That evidence included security video.

Authorities also relied upon store receipts showing suspicious transactions from the person and obtained a search warrant for his Google search history that showed him conducting searches they considered suspicious, the official said.

Authorities relied upon cell phone technology to trace the suspect to a hotel in Williamson County, the official said.

Four bombs have exploded in Austin since March 2, killing two men and injuring four people. A fifth bomb exploded early Tuesday at a FedEx sorting facility in Schertz, about 60 miles southwest of Austin. A package containing what was believed to be an unexploded bomb was found Tuesday at a FedEx distribution center in Austin. Authorities believe the FedEx packages were sent from the FedEx retail store in Sunset Valley.

If all of the bombs originated with the same person, the use of FedEx represented a major shift in the bomber’s methods and a major break for authorities. The first three Austin bombs were left overnight on doorsteps and were not delivered by commercial delivery services, authorities have said. The fourth bomb was left next to a street in a residential subdivision and was triggered by a trip wire strung over a sidewalk.

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5